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Navan was the childhood home of Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...

, who appeared in the television series Remington Steele
Remington Steele
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and was the fifth film actor to play James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

. TV personality Hector Ó hEochagáin

Hector Ó hEochagáin

Hector Ó hEochagáin is an Irish television and radio presenter from Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland. He currently presents Breakfast with Hector weekday mornings on RTÉ 2fm.-Career:...

, and comedians Dylan Moran

Dylan Moran

Dylan Moran is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books , and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run...

and Tommy Tiernan

Tommy Tiernan

Tommy Tiernan is an Irish comedian, actor and writer. He and Hector Ó hEochagáin present The Tommy and Hector Show on i102-104FM. Tiernan also featured in Father Ted.-Early life:...

also hail from Navan.

Other famous Navan people have included Sir Francis Beaufort famous for his wind scale

Beaufort scale

The Beaufort Scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort Wind Force Scale.-History:...

. His birthplace was removed by the local council in the 1990s to make way for a road junction.

Brian Byrne, composer, is a native of Navan and is currently living in L.A. working on film and TV scores. Brian has recently reworked the theme tune for The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show
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and scored the upcoming Irish comedy movie Zonad
Zonad
Zonad is a film by John Carney and Kieran Carney that premiered in July 2009 at the Galway Film Fleadh with the directors in attendance.The film went to general release in Ireland March 19, 2010.- Plot :...

.

Leading Trance producer John O'Callaghan

John O'Callaghan (DJ)

John O'Callaghan is an Irish DJ, mainly producing electronic dance music. He also produces music under the alias of Joint Operations Centre, Mannix and Stenna. He has also collaborated with fellow Discover artists such as Bryan Kearney, Neal Scarborough , Thomas Bronzwaer and Greg Downey as well...

is also from the area.

Entrepreneur Ian Clarke, the man behind Freenet

Freenet

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, Revver

Revver

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and SenseArray is also a Navan native.

Dave Murphy of Setanta Sports

Setanta Sports

Setanta Sports is an international sports broadcaster based in Dublin, Ireland. Setanta Sports was formed in 1990 to facilitate the broadcasting of Irish sporting events...

Sport

Navan is home to many sports teams which have won titles in many various sports. The town has had major success in the Meath Senior Football Championship. Pierce O'Mahony's and Navan Gaels are both defunct GAA clubs. Together they have won 14 Meath Senior Football Championship Titles. Navan O'Mahony's

Navan O'Mahonys GAA

Navan O'Mahonys is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the town of Navan in County Meath, Ireland. The club competes in Meath competitions. With 17 Senior Football wins they are the most successful football club in Meath...

was founded in 1948 and with 17 S.F.C titles they are the most successful football club in County Meath. Páirc Tailteann

Páirc Tailteann

Páirc Tailteann is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Navan, County Meath, Ireland. It is the home of the Meath Gaelic football and Hurling teams. The ground has a capacity of between 30,000 and 33,000. It is the venue of the annual Meath GAA club championship finals of which the winners...

is located in Navan and is home of the Meath

Meath GAA

The Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Meath GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Meath, as well as for Meath inter-county teams.- Pre-1960s :...

Gaelic football

Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

and Hurling

Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...

teams.

Navan R.F.C.

Navan R.F.C.

Navan Rugby Football Club is an Irish rugby union club, based in Navan, County Meath. The club was founded in 1924, Its founder members included local individuals Willie Sullivan, W.M. Kirk, Nat Lacey, Matt and Charlie Crinion, Jack Finnegan, J. Gibney and Bobby Byrne...

won over 186 trophies in the 1960s and currently compete in the Leinster League Division 1.

Knockharley Cricket Club were founded in 1982 and are the only cricket club in County Meath

County Meath

County Meath is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Mid-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Mide . Meath County Council is the local authority for the county...

competing in the Leinster Cricket Union, the clubs most recent success came in 2006 when the 1st XI won the Middle 2 Leinster Cup defeating Mullingar at North Kildare.

Parkvilla Football Club were founded in 1966 and are the highest placed football club in Meath playing in the Leinster Senior League in Senior 1A. They have a very successful schoolboy/girl section which has consistently won the highest honours in the North Eastern Counties Schoolboy League. The club were honoured with a Civic reception by Navan Town Council in 2006 for their contribution to sport and the community in Navan. Their home ground is Claremont Stadium, Commons Road, Navan whom they co-own with Navan Athletic Club.

**Navan Sports Clubs**
Club	Sport	League	Venue	Established
Navan O'Mahony's Navan O'Mahonys GAA Navan O'Mahonys is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the town of Navan in County Meath, Ireland. The club competes in Meath competitions. With 17 Senior Football wins they are the most successful football club in Meath...	Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...	Senior Football & Hurling Championship Meath GAA The Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Meath GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Meath, as well as for Meath inter-county teams.- Pre-1960s :...	Brews Hill	1948
Navan R.F.C. Navan R.F.C. Navan Rugby Football Club is an Irish rugby union club, based in Navan, County Meath. The club was founded in 1924, Its founder members included local individuals Willie Sullivan, W.M. Kirk, Nat Lacey, Matt and Charlie Crinion, Jack Finnegan, J. Gibney and Bobby Byrne...	Rugby Union Rugby union Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...	Leinster League Leinster League The Leinster League is the second tier of rugby in Leinster, behind the Leinster Senior League. It was previously known as the RE/MAX Leinster League and consists of three divisions.-History:...	Balreask Old	1924
Navan Hockey Club	Field hockey Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...	Leinster Division 2 Leinster Leinster is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the east of Ireland. It comprises the ancient Kingdoms of Mide, Osraige and Leinster. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the historic fifths of Leinster and Mide gradually merged, mainly due to the impact of the Pale, which straddled...	Leisurelink Astro	1991
Simonstown Gaels Simonstown Gaels GAA Simonstown Gaels GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the town of Navan, in County Meath, Ireland. The club mainly plays Gaelic Football and competes in Meath GAA competitions. In 2003 and 2004 the team reached the Meath Senior Football Championship final.-Honours:*Meath Senior...	Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...	Senior Football Championship	Simonstown Batterstown	1965
Walterstown G.F.C. Walterstown GFC Walterstown GFC is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the town of Navan, in County Meath, Ireland. The club mainly plays Gaelic Football. It competes in Meath GAA competitions. The club has won the Meath Senior Football Championship 5 times.-History:...	Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...	Senior Football Championship	Oldtown	1902
Navan A.C	Athletics	Athletics Association of Ireland European Athletic Association The European Athletic Association is the European governing body for the sport of athletics.- History :In 1932, during a meeting of the International Amateur Athletic Federation in Los Angeles, a special committee was designated by the Council with the task of reviewing the conditions for the...	Claremont Stadium	1973
Navan Boxing Club	Boxing Boxing Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...	Irish Boxing Association Irish Amateur Boxing Association The Irish Amateur Boxing Association is the governing body of amateur boxing in Ireland. It was founded in 1911 following a meeting in Dublin.-Structure:...	C.Y.W.S. Hall	1999
Navan Tennis Club	Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...	Tennis Tennis Ireland	Balreask Old	1976
Parkvilla Football Club	Football	LSL Senior 1A Leinster Senior League (association football) The Leinster Senior League is an association football league organised by the Leinster Football Association. The league is the highest level of football outside the Republic of Ireland football league system...	Claremont Stadium	1966
OMP United	Football	Meath & District League County Meath County Meath is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Mid-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Mide . Meath County Council is the local authority for the county...	Tara Court Green	1966
Knockharley Cricket Club	Cricket Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...	Leinster Cricket Union Leinster Cricket Union The Leinster Cricket Union, also known as Cricket Leinster, is one of four provincial governing bodies for cricket in Ireland. Along with the Northern, Munster and North West unions, it makes up the Irish Cricket Union , the supreme governing body of Irish cricket.The Leinster jurisdiction covers...	Veldonstown	1982
Navan Road Club	Cycling Cycling club A cycling club is a society for cyclists. It can be local or national, general or specialised. The Cyclists' Touring Club, CTC) in the United Kingdom is a national association; i-Team and are internet clubs; the Tricycle Association, Tandem Club and the Veterans Time Trial Association, for those...	Cycling Ireland Cycling Ireland Cycling Ireland or CI is the national governing body of cycle racing in Ireland. CI is a member of the UCI and the UEC. There are four provincial associations: Cycling Connacht, Cycling Leinster, Cycling Munster and Cycling Ulster.-History:...	Navan	1953

Other sporting facilities include:

Aura swimming pool
Horse Racing, both National Hunt racing
National Hunt racing
National Hunt racing is the official name given to the sport of horse racing in the United Kingdom, France and Ireland in which the horses are required to jump over obstacles called hurdles or fences...

and Flat racing
Flat racing
Flat racing is a form of Thoroughbred horse racing which is run over a level track at a predetermined distance. It differs from steeplechase racing which is run over hurdles...

, at Navan Racecourse
Navan Racecourse
Navan Racecourse is a horse racing venue at Proudstown near Navan, County Meath, Ireland, approximately 48 kilometres from Dublin. The course stages Flat racing but is best known for National Hunt racing....

.

Twinning

Navan is twinned

Town twinning

Twin towns and sister cities are two of many terms used to describe the cooperative agreements between towns, cities, and even counties in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.- Terminology :...

with the following places: Bobbio
Bobbio
Bobbio is a small town and commune in the province of Piacenza in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is located in the Trebbia River valley southwest of the town Piacenza. There is also an abbey and a diocese of the same name...

, Piacenza

Piacenza

Piacenza is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza...

, Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna

Emilia–Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of and about 4.4 million inhabitants....

, Italy

Italy

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Broccostella
Broccostella
Broccostella is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 100 km east of Rome and about 25 km northeast of Frosinone. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,704 and an area of 12.0 km².Broccostella borders the following...

, Frosinone

Frosinone

Frosinone is a town and comune in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the Province of Frosinone. It is located about 75 km south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples Autostrada A1...

, Lazio, Italy

Italy

Arts

Railway Street in Navan is the home of the Solstice Art Gallery, which is run by Meath County Council and leading art exhibitions are held there regularly.

Meath Arts Group is very active in the area.

Public Art

Sniomh by Betty Newman Maguire in front of Navan Fire Station. A sculpture inspired by the movement of water and the merging of the rivers Boyne

River Boyne

The River Boyne is a river in Leinster, Ireland, the course of which is about long. It rises at Trinity Well, Newbury Hall, near Carbury, County Kildare, and flows towards the Northeast through County Meath to reach the Irish Sea between Mornington, County Meath and Baltray, County Louth. Salmon...

and Blackwater.

The Fifth Province by Richard King on the Navan Bypass. A sculpture symbolising the ideal for the cultural integration of all the people of the island of Ireland. Composed of four branches and a central upright stem that symbolises the flowering of hope and peace.

External links

Meath County Council
Parkvilla Football Club website
Navan O'Mahonys Hurling website
Navan Railway Project.com - Website tracking reinstatement of Rail Passenger services to Navan
Meath Tourism website managed by Meath County Council
Meet in Meath website managed by Meath County Council
Meath Event Guide
The Meath Echo, Free local newspaper
The Meath Chronicle, local newspaper
Navan horse racing official site
Local Public Speaking Club - Navan Toastmasters
Eiretrains - Navan Station
Eiretrains - Navan Junction Station
http://www.thebackroomsessions.com/ - Lantern Bar in Navan. Traditional Irish Music every Wednesday night.
Costa Systems, Cash registers and POS systems
Earls Kitchen Cafe